Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-16

Female Institute. The OILY Virgioians in
are State Superintendent Buch-
apan aud City Superintendent Csrne, of
Alexandria.
dispatch hes been sent from here to
Boston and published in a newspaper of
that citv. in which Col. Canaday sergeant at
arms Of the Senate, is charged with various
sorts Of official crookedness, involving his
ncrsonel honesty There is not one word
Of truth in it. The Colonel is one of the few
southern republicans" seen about here
who have always received and merited the
confidence and respect OF those who know
them. whether democrats or republicans,
Southern or Northern men. He is liked by
all the republican Senators, and is equally
as popular with those on the democratic
side; indeed when Senator Riddleberger
once threatened TO offer resolution for in
vestigeting one Of his appointments, eight
or Ten of the democratic members came to
him and proffered their support.
General Terry, of Wythevile, Virginia,
who is an applicant for the .. S. marshal
ship OF the western district of his State, Is
still III the city, and his friends think ne
has some chance of success. though the
general impression among the Virgnians
here still is that the place will go to Mr,
Jordan who is near relative of General
James A. Walker.
a Philadelphia democrat here to day says
that though the committee on congressional
apportionment of the Legislature of his State
has reported favorably upon bill by which
Mr.. Randall will be put in district with
three thousand republican majority, the
Senate will not pass it, but that even if 1t
sbnnId Mr. Rand al Uoul6 etill ha eleptnO
by large majority, as the protection re.
Dublicans of that State can not afford to do
without him in Congress.
West Virgnians in the city to-day say
the called session of that body will elect a
Z. S. Senator, and that he, and not MIR.
Lucas, appointed Senator by Gov. Wilson,
will be admitted.
1t has been reported that Secretary Whit
ney and his wife intended making trip to
Florida this month. The Secretary said
this morning that he never had intended
any thing Of the kind, and would not go.
The rumor is still afloat that Secretary Whit
ney, like Secretary Manning, is not alto
gether satisfied with his position, under ex.
listing circumstances, and that he, too, may
withdraw from the cabinet before the close
of the term for which he was appoin:e'.
Among the warrants Issued by the Treas
ury Department to-day was one amounting
to 81 800 900 in favor Of the collector of Gus.
toms at New York to pay debentures and
drawback and refund excess Of deposits for
unnscertaiued duties.
Mr. W. l.. Royal and attorney general Ayers
of Virginia were in the L. 5. Supreme Court
room to-day, ready to argue the habeas corpus
cases Involving the validity of the coupons OF Viz
ginia bones but these case were not reached and,
lIr puv rna hn until week
Among the bills heretofore reported to have re-
eivcd pocket veto, was the one for restoring to
tho owners certain plate iewelry and other valua-
bles captured during the war and now held in the
Treasury. 1t turns out, however, that that bill is
q law as il has received the Presidents signature,
though it is said that it must have been signed
SUI bsequent TO tho adjournment of Congress.
A statement has been printed in some of the
papers to the effect that Comptroller Trenholm of
South Carolina, in recent alter-dnner speech,
said, addressing General Sherman: Harsh and
stern as WAS your march through Georgia, | am
glad you made it," The GAzETTE's correspondent
Is authorized TO say there is not word of truth
in the statement referred 10.
The Department of State has just received a
copy OF he will OF the late lose Sevlla who died
in Lima Peru, recently, leaving S5O0.OOO II be
applied 10 The establishment in New York of an
Institution for ;ha education OF poor female chill
dren.
OF The sixteen naval cadets appointed By the
President only eight have bscn allowed to remain
at Annapoi5.
The Navy Department is about TO begin the
preparation of plans for the two 100 ton gum
boats, for which provision was made by the late
Congress
copy of public speech made by the new COL
ored recorder OF deeds of this city, in Boston, has
been found and printed. In it, abiding to the
Copiah affair in Mississippi, he advised the ne
groes Of the South To resort TO the torch and to
dynamite This was only few years ago. For
an infinitely less barbarous remark made i'll h
private letter. the commission of Mr.. Blackburn,
of kentucky, was revoked
Mr.. B. w. ellis, Of the republican proof
readers in the Office of the public printer recently
removed did not kick nor lose time in trying to be
reinstatcd, but applied at once for similar posi-
ton on one of the daily papers here, and succeed
ed in getting it. hlr. ellis WAS Of the pro-
prietors Of the state Journal, republican ne@spa-
per printed in Alexandria during and for some
time subsequent to the war.